Flash 5 has support for XML communications over HTTP. However, sadly enough, there is no support for setting HTTP headers.
The 'SOAPAction' HTTP header is however essential if you want to communicate with SOAP-compliant webservices.
And what is very popular these days ? Yes, SOAP-based webservices...
And why are they popular ? Because they allow you to access business logic functionalities (for example doing a query to retrieve flight availability or the wheather in your city or live stock quotes or ...) over the Internet in a structured form (in other words without having to do screen- or HTML- scraping). By Tom Van den Eynde
Ever tried making video for television from Flash anim? I trieed, it's on the air. But I'd rather do it in an other way, with some video editor and stuff like that. But if you'd like to try it, or have no other way here's the harder way to do it. Mainly for maniacs. As I'm not a big guru some might know easier ways but until then... By anthropos